"My dear father-in-law,
I have not written to you with regard to the fatal event in both our lives; words are useless in face of the feelings it has caused, if even they can express our deepest emotions. God has seen good to lay upon me the one sorrow that could still touch me to the centre. He knows better than ourselves what is best for each of us, and now that the first sense of the irreparable has passed, I can bow with submission to His divine purpose. The physical tie between us is, as you say, severed; but the tie of affection subsists for me. Where I have once loved, I do not cease from loving. Besides, she who was the cause of it, still is near, though not visible to our physical vision....I should be glad if you would send me two or three of her books, especially if there are any in which her name is written. I have of her only her letters and a photograph."
( From: "Mrinalini Devi" by Nirodbaran)
Nirodbaran, a life long devotee and physician of Sri Aurobindo continues, " I find this letter extremely interesting, full of surprises. It is underlined with hitherto unknown aspects of Sri Aurobindo's life and throws overboard our accustomed notions or conceptions about him..It has a classical sublimity and is vibrant with poignant pathos. I shall not enter into controversy,..but humbly state that we know very little of the great Enigma that was Sri Aurobindo. The Moher herself confessed that though living for thirty years with Sri Aurobindo, she did not know him."
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